Burn Down the Plantation

In this sedition, we bring you an exclusive interview with prison inmate Melvin Ray, secretly filmed inside Holman Prison in Alabama. Melvin is a member of the Free Alabama Movement, a national organization against mass incarceration and prison slavery. They have teamed up with the IWW’s Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee to organize the largest prison strike in history, set to kick off on September 9th. Read more about the actions leading up to the strike at It’s Going Down. You can listen to our entire interview with Melvin Ray here. On the news section, we give you a blow by blow of the recent Milwaukee rebellions that erupted, following the police murder of African American Sylville K. Smith. We follow this up with the growing resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline in so-called North Dakota.